Transcarioca BRT line in Rio de Janeiro - achievements and challenges for a sustainable city
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2016
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On the pathway of urban transformations that are preparing the city to host the 2016 Olympic Games, Rio de Janeiro has been implementing a broad range of new transportation infrastructures. The four Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines named Transoeste, Transcarioca, Transolímpica and Transbrasil are the main investments in public transportation made by the City of Rio de Janeiro (Prefeitura), added by the demolition of the elevated viaduct of Perimetral, in the Port Area. Combined to the subway extension from Ipanema to Barra da Tijuca, and to the new expressway which rips through the metropolitan area in the north, entitled Arco Rodoviário (Highway Arch), in charge by the State Government of Rio de Janeiro.
These transportation infrastructure works, carried out in the last 5 years, have been the result of erratic planning inspired, most of times, in ideas formulated - and unrealized - in the 1960’s, which were removed from technocratic trays in the rush for preparing the city for big events. Nevertheless, this set of works will interfere in the development of the metropolitan city in the years to come.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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